BJUG #10 is closing in fast. In less than two weeks we meet again, and get another chance to find out new stuff about new and exciting technologies, but more important about each other. That is the reason why we, Andrei and Mihai, started JUG Bucharest almost one year ago and that is the reason why I constantly remind people to share ideas and get to know each other better.

I’m a strong believer that people drive things forward, and that technologies, frameworks and programming languages are just tools.

JUG 10 looks popular, but it still has some catching up to do before it reaches the same popularity as JUG #9, which managed to fill the 100 places conference room from the 10th floor at 1&1 Internet Development.

Last month brought us a little surprise from our partner in environmental issues, the “Viitor Plus” NGO. They came and presented us their project named “Atelierul de panza”.

It all started with the idea of ​​counter pollution of plastic bags, and soon appeared canvas bags as environmentally friendly alternative to the plastic bags, besides a little workshop was organized.

“Atelierul de Panza” is an environmental protection project, but it is also a social and professional one; it seeks to integrate, socio-professionally, people with physical disabilities, who face a difficult life and support themselves by selling bags.

Their work had great success among our colleagues. Hope we will see them soon with new ideas.

After the feast of joy, proudly called 1&1 Winterfest, another special moment happily arrived: AgileFest 2012! The twelve speakers gathered both from Romania and Germany shared within a flash of inspiration their experience, ideas, best practices, and also great moments of fun.

1&1 and its partner in environmental activities (Viitor Plus) invited us to run at Children’s Forest for a special cause (plant one tree for every new born).

Some of our colleagues accepted the challenge, and on Sunday morning they were ready to start running. We’ve had participants at the 3 km race, but most of them signed up for the 10 km race.

The atmosphere was great and the weather was on our side. My colleague Magda captured the entire event in a few beautiful words: “I did not think so many people would come on a Sunday morning to run and enjoy nature. It is like an oasis of normality …”.

Vlad was pleasantly surprised by the organization team, by the large number of participants, and the location event gave him the opportunity to explore the Tineretului Lake.

The tekomannual conference is the largest global event for technical communication. Organized in the pure German way (that means: perfectly), the conference is a best opportunity for specialists all over the world to get in touch with each other, learn from each other and define together new trends for the industry.

Last month 1&1 offered me the chance to attend this event. Since this was my first participation, I didn’t know what to expect. I was told the conference would be big, but I wasn’t able to imagine the dimensions of it, and the impact it would have.

October 6th, 2012, 10:00 o’clock in the morning, great turmoil in the parking lot in front of the Police Academy Bucharest, hundreds of people and bikes, great weather…, but this might tell you nothing.

Let me put it in other words: on October 6th, 2012, Corporate Sports organized the first cross-country competition called MTB Corporate Sports 2012. The competition was open to all those who wished to compete on an easy forest track. In order to sign up for the competition, one had to be employed in a company or

1&1 Internet Romania will be present with a wide offer of opportunities for IT specialists, both beginners and experts at “Angajatori de TOP” fair, this week, October, 26-27th, in Bucharest. We are searching for colleagues for the following positions to be part of our Bucharest-based teams: Project Manager, Java Developer, PHP Developer, Javascript Developer, Quality Assurance Developer, Quality Assurance Engineer, ETL Developer, Product Manager, C++ Developer, IT Operations Engineer, Release Manager.
We also have openings for the Internships and programs within 1&1 Internet Romania.